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Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health [Hardcover] William Davis

In this 1 New York Times bestseller, a renowned cardiologist explains how eliminating wheat from our diets can prevent fat storage, shrink unsightly bulges, and reverse myriad health problemsEvery day, over 200 million Americans consume food products made of wheat As a result, over 100 million of them experience some form of adverse health effect, ranging from minor rashes and high blood sugar to the unattractive stomach bulges that preventive cardiologist William Davis calls wheat bellies According to Davis, that excess fat has nothing to do with gluttony, sloth, or too much butter: Its due to the whole grain wraps we eat for lunchAfter witnessing over 2,000 patients regain their health after giving up wheat, Davis reached the disturbing conclusion that wheat is the single largest contributor to the nationwide obesity epidemicand its elimination is key to dramatic weight loss and optimal health In Wheat Belly, Davis exposes the harmful effects of what is actually a product of genetic tinkering and agribusiness being sold to the American public as wheatand provides readers with a userfriendly, stepbystep plan to navigate a new, wheatfree lifestyleInformed by cuttingedge science and nutrition, along with case studies from men and women who have experienced lifechanging transformations in their health after waving goodbye to wheat, Wheat Belly is an illuminating look at what is truly making Americans sick and an action plan to clear our plates of this seemingly benign ingredient